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Former WVU Head Coach Bill Stewart (RIP)

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osugrad21

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Love this one...congrats Coach Stew.

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01/03/2008
Stewart To Be New Head Coach
Hoppy Kercheval
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WVU will name Bill Stewart the new Mountaineer football coach, sources confirmed for Metronews early Thursday morning. The announcement is expected to come later this morning in Scottsdale, AZ.
The development comes just hours after WVU?s stunning 48-28 victory over Oklahoma in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl
Clearly, Stewart has the support of the team.
?He needs that job, ? said quarterback Pat White shortly after the game. ?He deserves it, the head coaching job.?
Defensive lineman John Dingle chimed in at the post game press conference saying Stewart, who served as interim head coach for the bowl, should be the next head coach.
And Stewart, 55, wants the job.
?I will cherish the opportunity to be the head coach at the state flagship university,? Stewart said. But he?s willing to let the situation play out.
?Our committee (the search committee) is in good hands,? Stewart said. ?They?ve got a tough call because it?s a great job with some great players and a great future and we need to get the best candidate possible, Okay??
But Stewart?s name had not been prominently mentioned for the job until this week, and more specifically not until after the game. One university source said WVU wanted to see how the bowl turned out.
?If it?s a national search, so it bit, ? Stewart added. ?We will get the best man for the job.?




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?If it?s a national search, so it bit, ? Stewart added. ?We will get the best man for the job.?
?I have not been interviewed for the job,? Stewart said after the game. ?Whatever decision those gentlemen and the committee decide, I?m with them.?
?I will not politic for the job,? Stewart said.
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Without knowing anything about Stewart I think this is a great move for the program. When things are going well it is best to keep doing what you're doing. Stewart should be able to keep most of the staff together, which probably wouldn't have been the case if WVU had gone outside of the program. If he's as good of a recruiter as 21 says they will be just fine. With as well as they played last night it's almost hard to think how flat the were against Pitt. Hopefully RR took the poor play in big games with him to scum.
 
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BuckeyeNation27;1047908; said:
Sounds like they're putting an awful lot of stock in one game where the players were obviously motivated more than the other team.
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True, but it took a hell of a job to get those players motivated. How many teams that have gone through less just roll over in the bowl (Interim coaches were 0-6 coming in). Look at the history of big teams falling in the Holiday Bowl over the years as proof.
 
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redskinbucksfan said:
True, but it took a hell of a job to get those players motivated. How many teams that have gone through less just roll over in the bowl (Interim coaches were 0-6 coming in). Look at the history of big teams falling in the Holiday Bowl over the years as proof.
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No it didn't. It took one coach pissing them all off. And it wasn't even the coach that we're talking about in this thread.
 
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Glad to see a dedicated assistant get his chance.

I, for one, am glad to see a dedicated assistant coach get his shot. He held this team together. They obviously responded on game night. Time will tell on any coach, whether he has been a head coach, a "name" head coach, or an assistant who had paid the price. By the way it doesn't hurt to have Pat White as your qb and Steve Slaton (who got hurt) and a host of other athletes. :osu:
 
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BuckeyeNation27;1047938; said:
No it didn't. It took one coach pissing them all off. And it wasn't even the coach that we're talking about in this thread.
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That very same situation you are talking about could have taken this team in the complete opposite direction.

It's easy to sit back and say it didn't take much to get these kids motivated (and PREPARED for a good OU team), but you cannot dismiss the fact he might just have done a great job.
 
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OSUBuckeye4Life said:
That very same situation you are talking about could have taken this team in the complete opposite direction.

It's easy to sit back and say it didn't take much to get these kids motivated (and PREPARED for a good OU team), but you cannot dismiss the fact he might just have done a great job.
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No, I can just form my opinion that these players were motivated to prove that they don't need Dick Rod. During the circus that is their coaching search, I don't think I heard this guy's name one time. Now he's got the job based on one game? Good luck to him.
 
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